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Satish Bastola, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

 
504-280-6093 
sbastola@uno.edu

Terrestrial water cycle of medium to large river basins, interaction of hydrological, geomorphological and biogeochemical processes, terrestrial biosphere modeling, effect of climate and global change on water resources and hydrologic regimes, influence of vegetation on soil erosion, shallow landslide, and gully erosion, statistical downscaling for hydrological application, combining crop model and satellite data for crop yield analysis 


Kelly Boyle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
 

 
504-280-6645 
ksboyle@uno.edu

Functional morphology and behavior of teleost fishes, fish bioacoustics: the relationship between morphological diversity of the ear and associated anatomical features and hearing acuity in different fishes, the impact of human-made noise in marine environments on hearing and acoustic communication in fishes


Erin Cox, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
 

 
504-280-6642 
tecox@uno.edu

Coastal benthic ecology: the study of the plants and animals that live on the seafloor in shallow-waters and how the environment shapes their interactions and physiology, the study of how humans modify coastal ecosystems and how best to manage them, examinations of kelp forest herbivory, ecology on rocky shores and longterm monitoring of intertidal communities, production on artificial reefs and in seagrass beds, effects of ocean acidification on seagrass beds and small invertebrates, outreach and science advisor to a secondary school led monitoring program (OPIHI: Our Project in Hawaii’s Intertidal)


Madeline Foster-Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
 

 
504-280-4747 
mrfoster@uno.edu

Environmental fluid mechanics, implementation of nature and nature-based features, wetland restoration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, ecological modeling, engineering with nature


Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Ph.D., P.G.
Professor Gratis
 

GP 1065
Coastal Morphodynamics 
504-280-1373 
igeorgio@uno.edu

Surfaces processes and numerical modeling in fluvial, estuarine, and coastal systems. Hydrodynamics, sediment transport and morphology modeling, coastal geomorphology, water and sediment exchange processes, landscape evolution, sediment transport during storms, coastal sand budgets.


Mark A. Kulp, Ph.D.
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director of Pontchartrain Institute 

GP 1029
504-280-1170
mkulp@uno.edu

Coastal Stratigraphy, sedimentology, coastal geomorphology, coastal restoration


Robert C. Mahon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering

GP 1062
Stratigraphy and Surface Processes Lab 
504-280-1392 
rcmahon@uno.edu

 

sedimentology, stratigraphy, sediment transport in modern and ancient rivers and deltas,  building quantitative relations between physical processes such as flow and sediment transport dynamics and the record of these processes left behind as stratigraphic architectures,  sediment experiments in flumes and delta tanks, fieldwork on riverine and deltaic environments of Louisiana


Alex McCorquodale, Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng.
FMI Professor for Environmental Modeling, Civil and Environmental Engineering

CERM 315 
504-280-6074 
jmccorqu@uno.edu

Physical and numerical modeling in environmental hydraulics, settling tank hydrodynamics, lake and river hydrodynamics, transport of contaminated sediments, fluvial morphodynamics


Martin T. O'Connell, Ph.D.
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

GP 1008 
504-280-4032 
moconnel@uno.edu

Fish ecology, aquatic ecology, fisheries management, invasive species


David C. Podgorski, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, Chemistry


504-280-4438
dcpodgor@uno.edu

Analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry, and mobilization, processing, and fate of pollutants

 


William Stein III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Research

 
 
wstein1@uno.edu

Estuarine fish and decapod communities, water movement in the Pontchartrain Estuary, Lionfish, Cobia, Warsaw Grouper on the Louisiana coast, and the life history of Tarpon in the northern Gulf of Mexico


Phoebe Zito, Ph.D.
University of Louisiana System Foundation & Michael and Judith Russell Professor in Environmental Chemistry, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

 
504-280-7336 
pazito@uno.edu

Environmental chemistry, photochemistry, nanomaterials, aquatic geochemistry, analytical chemistry  


Staff

Dinah Maygarden, M.A.
Research Associate, Science Education Program Director

GP 1069
504-280-1374 
dmaygard@uno.edu

Environmental and coastal science education, teacher science education


Michael Brown
Research Associate

GP 1020G 
504-280-1360 
mabrown@uno.edu

Field support group, operations and maintenance


Meg O’Connell
Research Associate

GP 1007 
504-280-4037 
auzeeoco@uno.edu

Aquatic Sciences, experimental and applied statistics for fishery science


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